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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Bunker USA: “Jack Bauer isn’t real” – The truth about espionage in the digital age
Description: The tech explosion has transformed the spy game. Are intelligence agencies fit to face new threats from terror groups, disinformation gangs, and even teenagers in bedrooms? In a fascinating conversation intelligence expert Amy B. Zegart – author of Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence – tells Andrew Harrison how too much “spytainment” has warped US intelligence policy; the truth about the CIA blunders that led to 9/11 and the Iraq quagmire; and why modern spying isn’t what you think it is.
“The intelligence game isn’t about secrets. It’s about piecing together information.”
“George Washington even used fa...